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Recipe for Marital Success

January 30, 1947
Hollywood
Get miffy at tennis pro hubby when a lady tennis player calls to suggest they team up in a tournament match, cry as he splits for the L.A. Tennis Club, drink a shot of iodine, follow it up with an antidote of flour and eggs, then telephone sweetums to tell ‘im what you’ve done. He’ll race home and speed your upsy tummy to Hollywood Receiving Hospital for emergency treatment. Game, set and match to wifeypoo.

This is the scenario played out in the third week of marriage by tennis star Tom Falkenburg and his 21-year-old model bride, Bernice Allred Falkenberg, in their home at 523 N. Cahuenga. BTW, fellas, it’s a big red flag when your sweetie doesn’t just try to poison herself, but administers her own antidote!

Watch Tom’s sister Jinx with Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl.

Kim Cooper

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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Kim Cooper

Kim Cooper is the creator of 1947project, the crime-a-day time travel blog that spawned Esotouric’s popular crime bus tours, including The Real Black Dahlia. She is the author of The Kept Girl, the acclaimed historical mystery starring the young Raymond Chandler and the real-life Philip Marlowe, and of The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles. With husband Richard Schave, Kim curates the Salons and forensic science seminars of LAVA- The Los Angeles Visionaries Association. When the third generation Angeleno isn’t combing old newspapers for forgotten scandals, she is a passionate advocate for historic preservation of signage, vernacular architecture and writer’s homes. Kim was for many years the editrix of Scram, a journal of unpopular culture. Her books include Fall in Love For Life, Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth, Lost in the Grooves and an oral history of Neutral Milk Hotel.

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  1. Attacker
    Masked Man Assaults
    Girl at Gun Point

    A young masked gunman early today attacked an attractive 18-year-old girl in the Hawthorne district after forcing her to enter his automobile on 161st Street near Hawthorne Boulevard.

    “Keep quiet and get in the car or suffer the consequences,â€Â the man told [name deleted], 18, of [address deleted] W. 161st St as he brandished the gun in her face.

    After driving around about 20 minutes, the girl said, her assailant climbed into the back seat with her and forced her to submit to his advances at the point of a gun.

    Then he dumped her from the car at a point near the Hawthorne police station. She notified police and deputy sheriffs in Hawthorne and later was treated at the Park Emergency Hospital.

    Miss [name deleted] said the man wore a handkerchief over his face from the eyes down.

    + + +

    It is difficult to believe that there was a time when newspapers published rape victims’ names and addresses, but the Herald-Express had no misgivings about it. Aggie Underwood, Herald reporter and eventually the city editor of the Herald-Examiner, said she once had to go out eight weeks in a row and interview rape victims. Since this woman may still be alive, I’ve deleted her name and address.

    Quotes of the day:

    HERE IS THE PHOTO OF THE WEREWOLF KILLER’S,
    I SAW HIM KILL HER
    A FRIEND

    THE PERSON SENDING THOSE OTHER NOTES OUGHT TO BE ARRESTED FOR FORGERY HA HA!
    B.D.A.

    IF HE CONFESSES YOU WON’T NEED ME
    B.D.A.

    ASK NEWS MAN AT 5 & HILL FOR CLUE. WHY NOT LET THAT NUT GO I SPOKE TO SAID MAN
    B.D.A.

    Notes addressed to the “Hearld Expressâ€Â

    https://www.lmharnisch.com

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